AICN has an exclusive trailer. The film is based on the Grindhouse trailer with the same name. Rutger Hauer has replaced Dave Brunt as the Hobo. Apparently Brunt will play a cop in the film. Just a warning, the trailer has a little bit of violence in it.

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Another interesting cameo.  The guy holding the phone that appears to be getting robbed was the narrator in the Grindhouse trailer.

Epic. So simple, yet so brilliant.

Definitely a drive in flick!


Phil

A little bit of violence?!

Just what we need, another movie that contributes to the hobophobia in this world.  

Love it!  

When I first read they were making a film based on the faux Grindhouse trailer, the first thing I thought was they should do it cheap, dirty, gritty and pour on the grue.  Make it a pure exploitation flick along the lines of Jim Van Beeber's Deadbeat at Dawn, which I love to pieces.  

Looks like they've done exactly that.  I am so there.

Incidentally, as a former homeless shelter case worker, I don't see this flick having a negative effect on the popular view of the homeless -- which is already about as negative and inaccurate as it gets.  I worked with hundreds of them, and believe me, none of them decapitated anyone.  At least, not as creatively.

Trash entertainment.  Very shocking.  Very distasteful.  It takes a lot to offend me and I'm kind of offended right now.  That, in itself, is Scary.

Quoted from Baltis. Trash entertainment.  Very shocking.  Very distasteful.  It takes a lot to offend me and I'm kind of offended right now.  That, in itself, is Scary.

And that scares me.


Phil

I'm gonna have to wait until November to see Machete in Paris. That said, only time will tell if movies based on novelty trailers are any good. As of now, looks quite bizarre. Kinda goofy. Nah. Really goofy. But grotesque. Not sure what to make of it just yet. Rutger Hauer FTW though.

After Jason Eisner won the Grindhouse Faux Trailer contest for Hobo with a Shotgun.
He created this side splitting film short that toured the genre festival circuit last year.

**WARNING NSFW DUE TO BABY OBLITERATING GORE!**

Quoted from dogglebe And that scares me. Phil

Phil, in my advancing years I've noticed a huge departure in myself.  I still enjoy a good gore flick, if warranted, but I really am getting more and more turned off by gore and violence.  It's no wonder I've went back and started working on my auto-biographical comedy and a Drama I once wrote called "In My Tree".  

After finishing the script for my animated feature, "The Aquatic Astronaut", which houses my bands music entirely and is dedicated to my little girl, I knew something was different inside me.  I just didn't see horror the same.  I didn't see violence the same.  I know it belongs in society, and I love that people are willing to push the limits with these movies and test the lines drawn in the sand.  I think it makes for a more diverse world of creativity... I just know that it's not for me.  Not anymore.

Holy shit, that Treevenge movie is amazing!

~Zack~

Here's a review of it's premiere at Sundance.  Apparently they liked it.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/1/26/sundance-2011-review-bens-take-on-hobo-with-a-shotgun.html

The premise is similiar to the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas except without the gore.

The movie's available through VOD before a May limited theatrical run.
Overall, I was underwhelmed. It didn't exceed the sum of its parts.

Rutger Hauer is pitch perfect and the outrageous deaths are primo.
I'll always applaud death by bumper car and pinata beating blood drenched whores.
I think I'd enjoy this more as a sold out midnight feature at the Beverly.

It's a straight shooter grindhouse bullet to mainstream cinema.
But it doesn't have that satiric edge I loved about Treevenge so much.
Save for one scene, which is the teaser, the Hobo in the nursery, brilliant!
I love putting Rutger in those upside down twisted domestic scenarios.

Takes a while before hobo and shotgun are united, minute 33 out of 85.
The Drake at his best is a low rent Clarence Boddiker.
And there's just a bit of gleeful energy missing throughout, save for Rutger.

I'm glad the film exists, I hope Eisner can sharpen his ironic chops next time.

E.D.